Ask the Equine Nutritionist - Ration balancers vs. vitamin/mineral supplements

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In this special episode of Ask the Vet, we asked Dr. Nerida Richards, PhD, Equine Nutrition Specialist and founder of FeedXL.com, to answer your nutrition-based horse health questions. In this video, Dr. Gray and Dr. Richards discuss the differences between a ration balancer and vitamin/mineral supplements. They also talk about how they personally use them for their own horses and what types of horses would be good candidates for a ration balancer.

[@inspiringscriptureartw-kar3761]

You said your easy keeper is on the balancer. What is meant by that? Do you still have them on pasture or hay?

[@gracegrazziano8578]

they are given the balancer to balance the nutrients that is in the hay! so yes, they are given hay but hay may lack certain nutrients so they are fed a balancer to account for what the hay is missing

[@Horsein]

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